QR Codes - Teachers Resource

This is the information found in each of the QR codes, which are to be placed in a garden for
students to find. The headings are a suggestion of where to place each code in the garden.
Code 1 - Trees
The backyard is dominated by three large gum trees, (Eucalyptus citreodora).
Code 2 - Plants
Many native plants grow beneath the gum trees, including Kangaroo Paws (Anigozanthos manglesii),
banksia (Grevillea sp), and a lime tree.
Code 3 - Plants
There are snails amongst the leaves of the kangaroo paws, mealy bugs on the lime tree and native bees
feeding on nectar in the banksia flowers.
Cabbage white moths lay eggs on the leaves of the lime tree. When the caterpillars hatch they feed on
the leaves.
Code 4 - Picture of a Bird
In the mornings the flowers of the eucalyptus, grevilleas, kangaroo paws and banksia are cloaked by
competing birds, especially the Red wattlebird and the New Holland honeyeater.
Code 5 - Another picture of a bird
Carnabys cockatoos and pink and grey Galahs feed on the seeds of the banksia and the eucalyptus.
New Holland honeyeaters have been seen catching cabbage white moths on the wing. Willy wagtails
have a nest in the grevilleas and dart around all day catching native bees and cabbage white moths.
Code 6 - Ball of straw hanging from branch
There are a couple of rats nests in the neighbours cypress pines which hang over the fence. Empty snail
shells have been found in those rats nests.
Code 7 - Small compost pile (vegetable peelings)
Beside the lime tree is a compost heap which contains leaves from the plants and scraps from the
kitchen. It is full of writhing earthworms and white fungus mycelia.
Code 8 - Pile of feathers
Cats have been seen roaming free at night and entering the yard. The cats kill and eat willy wagtails and
New Holland honeyeaters. Piles of their feathers have been found.
Code 9 - Grass or leaf litter
It is estimated the biomass in kg of dry mass/ m
2
of all of the producers in the back yard to be 5kg/m
2
.
Code 10 - Dropped branch
On cool nights when guests arrive for dinner, people sit outside and light a fire in a brazier. They use
wood from the branches that of all from the Eucalyptus citreodora. The leftovers from dinner and the
ashes from the fire are disposed in the compost heap.

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